Snoppiz

13 years ago

I tried that tool on KDE 3.2.3 and it worked very well, i'm of course a user of gentoo.
But i don't only want to update the system, i want to install or add new files to my system.
Can you implement that in the tool?
That would be nice!!

somekool

jayenell

13 years ago

Why does Kentoo shows a list of tens of packages to update (most of them to be downgraded) and when I do a emerge --pretend --update world (or system) it only shows aprox. 4 packages, all to be upgraded?

Does Kentoo not respect the mask-flag (i'm using ~x86)?

When masking a package in kentoo using the kentoo menu, where does it record it. It can not use /etc/portage/package.unmask because Kentoo is running as a user.

Should it not ask for a root-password when I press sync?

Or is Kentoo designed always to run as a user? Why not ask for a root-password first?

RockHound

13 years ago

Hi there,

there was an app called kportage back in the kde 3.1.x days. Maybe you can talk to the devs and/or look at there code. I believe the problem was back then, that portage changed way to fast to keep up the development.

Kalna

sequitur

13 years ago

I spoke with the developers of KPortage. One was no longer involved and the other was too busy. I also spoke with Caleb about this. We received the CVS of KPortage and were going to talk with other developers about bringing it up to date and making it part of KDE. Unfortunately we were also very busy with Quanta and Kommander and none of us were very familiar with Python.

In the course of things we decided that it would actually be easier and faster to build it in Kommander once we had passed the KDE 3.3 feature freeze. This would also make a good showcase. So we've been working with several parts doing the design, reviewing Kportage and new portage tools.

We are still planning to release a revival of this application built in Kommander, and a key advantage is that Kommander applications are scriptable so various users can actually get involved in the development.

Of course it's cool to see Kentoo too. We welcome all projects and any developers wishing to collaborate. Our design will be similar to KPortage but will take into account development since then and will have the same kind of attention to detail that Quanta and Kommander have... of course you can use Kentoo right now. ;-)

dimitri

standsolid

jbaehr

13 years ago

It would be great if you'd add support for esearch, a kind of locate for ebuilds (http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?esearch-0.6.2)
It makes an index of all ebuilds allowing a very fast search. In addition 'esync' does 'emerge sync', updates the db and displays you everythink what has changed since your last sync. very handy!

rhoelzer

bornio

13 years ago

Great app!
I wish only that it could show also Installed packages, Updates and New.
Perhaps Installed and Updates can be in one tab, parallel to one another to be easier to navigate.
Also, perhaps sorting the list by 'type' would be nice.
Like KPackage (in Beta1/2 does), by sys-apps, sys-devel, etc. things like what would make visual managment A LOT easier.

One more critical thing in my opinion is the ability to un/merge specific apps.
like in portage: 'emerge unmerge arts', instead it should do: 'emerge nmerge arts-' to be more accurate, incase I have "by mistake/choice" more then one version installed of the same package.